3. VMware Horizon 6
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User Experience
Display / Multimedia / Peripheral / Printing / Access
Management
Image / Apps / Brokering / Security / Persona
Virtual Platform
Server (Hosted) / Client / Mobile
4. How User-Centric Computing Is Better
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Traditional Desktop VMware Horizon 6
Desktop tied to device Virtual desktop is encapsulated
Slow provisioning Fast, self-service automated provisioning
Unsecured endpoint Secured environment
Difficult to manage and patch Easy to manage and patch large scale
Difficult to enforce compliance Easy to back up and recover
Capital and operational cost savings
Application encapsulation
Publish applications to users
5. How Horizon 6 Improves VMware vSphere
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vSphere Alone Horizon 6 Adds…
VMware vCenter™ for virtual
machine provisioning
Automated desktop VM lifecycle management
Thin provisioning VMware View Composer™ for disk savings
Individual desktop virtual machines
Patch multiple desktops using shared image with
persona management
VMware vSphere® Client™
administrative UI
Desktop broker with single sign-on
Content based read cache (CBRC) PCoIP remote display protocol
VMware vSphere Storage APIs –
Array Integration (VAAI)
USB device redirection
Virtual and location-based printing
RDS Hosted Applications
Application encapsulation and deployment
6. VMware Horizon 6 – Components
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VMware Horizon Administrator
vSphere
Horizon 6 Unified Access
Desktop broker, secured access
Active Directory integration
Cloud Pod Architecture for multi-site
deployments
Horizon Client for Mobile Devices
Access desktops from iOS and
Android devices
Desktop VMs
VMware
Virtual SAN™
Support
View Connection Server/Security Server
VMware Horizon Client for Windows, Mac
Support for desktops/laptops and thin clients
Self-service, single sign-on
Smart card support
View Composer
Disk-saving via linked clones
Persona management
Quick update/patch
management
Horizon Desktop
Multi Display
Real-Time Audio-Video
Support
Display Protocol
PCoIP
RDP
Devices
USB redirection
Printing
Driver-free virtual printing
Location based printing
ThinApp
Application virtualization
Integrated deployment
RDS Hosted Apps
Publish RDS applications
7. Horizon 6 Features
• Horizon Administrator (connection and security servers)
– Desktop connection broker – Maintains desktop assignment
– Support for SSL connection to desktop with RDP
– Support for RSA SecurID authentication
– Support for RADIUS authentication
• Supports a wide range of alternative two-factor token-based authentication options
• Opens standard extension interface to allow third-party solution providers to
integrate advanced authentication extensions into Horizon 6
– Works with VMware® vCenter Server™ to provision virtual desktops as
needed
• Option to create automated pools of desktop virtual machines that grow on demand
• Integrates with Virtual SAN
– Can broker connections to standalone virtual machines (VMware or non-
VMware), physical desktops, or publish Windows RDS applications
– Supported desktop operating systems
• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
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8. Key Horizon 6 Features
• Horizon Unified Access
– Credential authentication against Active Directory
– Support for pre-created Active Directory machine accounts
– Option for single sign-on to desktop console session
– Smart card support
– Kiosk mode for machine based authentication
• HTML access
– Access Horizon 6 desktop without installing a client
– Compatible with major desktop and tablet operating systems
and browsers
• RDS Hosted Applications
– Publish Windows RDS Applications to Horizon 6 users
– Access with Horizon Client or VMware Workspace™
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Horizon
Administrator
9. Horizon Unified Access
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Access Method
Horizon Client
• Windows desktops, laptops, and certified thin clients
Horizon Client for Mac
• OSX 10.5 and higher
Horizon Client for Linux (vendor-provided)
• For certified thin clients and repurposed desktops
Web Client
• For Chrome 28, IE 9, Safari 6, Firefox 21 or later
Vendor Client (vendor-provided)
• For certified thin clients
Horizon Client for mobile devices
• iPad – Available in App Store
• Android – Available in Play Store
Horizon Desktops
vCenter virtual machines
• Automated desktop pools
Existing desktops
• Existing physical PC/blade
machines
• Existing virtual machines
• Individual (standalone) and
manual desktop pools
Remote Desktop Services
• Remote Desktop services
desktop pool
• Publish RDS applications
10. Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)
• vSphere
– Scalability – Built for the largest desktop environments
• Thousands of virtual machines per pod
• Faster and more efficient VMware vSphere vMotion® leading to decreased
migration time for virtual machines
• Shrink and grow desktops based on demand and priority – Dynamic Resource
Allocation
– High performance
• Optimized for desktop workloads
• Performance acceleration due to lower memory swapping
• Advanced storage performance optimization options leveraging vSphere 5.0 such
as vStorage API for array integration, up to 32 hosts per cluster for NAS, content
based read cache, and customizable View Composer disk drive letter
• VAAI included as tech preview
– Best density
• Increased desktop virtual machine density
– High availability and business continuity
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11. Key Horizon Features (cont.)
• Virtual SAN support
– Deploy Horizon 6 on a Virtual SAN cluster to take advantage of performance
and cost benefits
– Horizon will create Virtual SAN policies based on the type of desktop pool
– Virtual SAN provides SSD read and write caching backed by spinning disks
for storage
• View Storage Accelerator
– Utilises content based read caching to accelerate frequently accessed,
common blocks
– Hot blocks are stored in DRAM for high-speed, low latency access
– Helps mitigate the impact of boot storms
– Compatible with shared storage and Virtual SAN deployments
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Hard disksSSD
12. Key Horizon Features (cont.)
• View Composer
– Uses linked clone technology
• Disk savings
• Faster deployment
– Image separation
• Shared OS virtual disk
– Replicate changes quickly across dependent VMs
– QuickPrep or Sysprep for user customization
• User persistent disk (optional)
– Retains user-specific data
– Can be archived and managed separately from VMs
• Disposable disk
– Writes temp and page files to separate disk
– Deleted when virtual machine is powered off
– Can be installed as an add-on on the same host where vCenter
Server is installed or separately on a totally different host
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Desktop
A
Master
READ ONLY Desktop
B
Delta
Disk B
Desktop A
Desktop
B
disk
disk
base
disk
Delta
Disk A
13. Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)
• Horizon 6 Desktop – Display protocol
– PCoIP
• Adaptive technology for optimal user experience over LAN and WAN
• Fully lossless
• Perceptually lossless
• Smartcard supported
– RDP
• Aero support with RDP 7 Client, Windows 7
– Blast
• HMTL5 browser access
• No client needs to be installed
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14. Description Benefits
• Adaptive protocol for
delivering high fidelity
desktops to end users
• Select Build to Lossless
or Build to Perceptually
Lossless
• Client side image caching
• Highly tunable to suit
different environments
• Use GPOs to tune agents
and clients
• UDP based
• Automatically adapts based on available bandwidth
• Provide crisp lossless graphics for users that rely on
graphics for their work
• Configure for high user experience, low bandwidth, or
somewhere in between
• Maintain high user experience even on connections with
loss or high latency
Key Horizon 6 Features – PCoIP
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15. Description Benefits
• Choice of software,
shared hardware [virtual
shared graphics
acceleration (vSGA)], or
dedicated hardware
[virtual dedicated
graphics acceleration
(vDGA)] for 3D graphics
• Support for vMotion
(software and vSGA)
• Dynamically switch
between software and
vSGA
• Enables DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.1 apps
• vMotion, VMware vSphere High Availability, and VMware
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ compatible
• Lower TCO / higher ROI for workloads requiring basic or
medium 3D
• No Windows client side dependencies
• Broad application compatibility
Key Horizon 6 Features – 3D Graphics
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16. • Reduce TCO with more stateless desktops by allowing more
use cases to share desktops
• Profile migration – Windows user profiles from Windows XP to
Windows 7 and profiles from physical computers to Horizon 6
or from Horizon 6 to Horizon 6
• Facilitates DR/BC – Files are stored in their native format on
central file server
• Easy administration – GPO-based management
• Scalable – No database or login scripts to impede scalability
Feature Benefits
• Preserve user’s persona
between sessions
• Just-in-time file retrieval of
user’s data reduces peak
IOPS during login/logout
storms
• Uses standard CIFS shares.
• Does not require roaming
profiles but supports existing
roaming profile users
• Supports all Horizon 6
guests
• Also supported on physical
computers
Key Features – Horizon 6 Persona Management
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17. • Reduce bandwidth requirements for A/V while maintaining
quality
• Virtual Webcam driver increases application support
• Can enable and set policies for clients through GPOs to
reduce bandwidth
Feature Benefits
• Compress A/V from client
device to Horizon 6 Desktop
• Supported on Windows,
Linux, and Mac clients
• Supports microphones and
Webcams
• Utilizes virtual Webcam
driver
• Group policy control
Key Features – Real-Time Audio-Video
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Client
Compressed
A/V
PCoIP
A V A V
18. • Low TCO with a classic terminal services model, and
favorable licensing from Microsoft
• Cross-platform support for accessing applications
• Leverage existing RDSH deployment in the organization
• Provide access for key business applications to external
stakeholders
Feature Benefits
• Publish applications to users
instead of desktops
• Seamless look and feel for
the user
• Utilize Horizon 6 Client
across platforms including
Mac and iOS to access
Windows applications
• Horizon 6 will spread users
across available RDSH
servers
• Integrate with Horizon
Workspace
Key Features – RDS Hosted Applications
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APP APP
19. • Increase Horizon 6 scalability
• Configure Horizon 6 Pod architecture to direct users to their
home site or to a DR site in the event of failure
• Have users moving between sites get the correct desktops
• Provide a single Horizon URL for users across the org
Feature Benefits
• Connect multiple Horizon
pods together across sites
• Support for active/active and
DR use cases
• Support for geo-roaming
users
• Single namespace
Key Features – Cloud Pod Architecture
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Federated Horizon Pods
Pod 1
VCS 1 VCS 2
LDAP Replication
Pod 2
VCS 3 VCS 4
LDAP Replication
Global LDAP Replication
Inter
-pod
com
m.
20. Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)
• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 USB redirection
– Automatic USB redirection to connect peripheral devices
• Storage devices
• Printers
• Scanners
• Bluetooth adapters
– USB redirection policy settings are applicable to Horizon 6 Agent as well as
Horizon 6 Client
• USB recognition
– Horizon 6 Client reads the device family from the device itself, not from the
device driver, so drivers need not be explicitly installed on the client
• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 clipboard redirection
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21. Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)
• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 printing
– Driver-free printing from virtual desktops
– Uses ThinPrint virtualized printer driver included in Horizon 6 Client
– Uses compression to minimize network utilization
– Location based printing integrated with Active Directory GPOs
• ADM templates provided with VMware Horizon 6
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22. Key Features – Location-Based Printing for
Non-Windows-Based Clients
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Description Benefits
• No client side requirements or dependencies for
Windows-based clients
• Managed and configured through AD GPOs
• Prints to the closest network based printer from any
device
• Extends support of
location based printing to
non-Windows based
clients
• Several location detection
rules including
• IP address
• MAC address
• User name
• User group
• Client hostname
23. Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)
• Horizon 6 Desktop – VMware ThinApp®
– Virtualizes and encapsulates applications
• Decouples applications and data from the operating system
• Allows one copy of application to be run by multiple users
– Integrated deployment in View Management Console
• Deploy single, multiple packages to desktop pools
• Push to desktop or stream from network
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Capture Store Deploy
24. Key Horizon 6 Features – VMware Horizon Client
for iPad
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Description Benefits
• Enables full Windows desktop experience on the iPad
• Connectivity over 3G and WiFi
• With App Store, client is always up to date
• Horizon Client for the
iPad
• Horizon Client for the
iPad with PCoIP
support including
remote connectivity
support with the View
security server
• Available on the Apple
App Store
25. Key Horizon 6 Features – Horizon Client for
Android
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Description Benefits
• Access Windows virtual machines from Android
devices with best possible user experience even over
low bandwidth and high latency network conditions
• Connectivity over 3G and Wi-Fi, supports multitasking
• Support for Kindle Fire
• Client is updated through the Play Store or Kindle Store
• Horizon Client for
Android
• PCoIP support and
remote connectivity
support with View
security server
• Delivered through the
Android Play Store or
the Amazon Kindle
Store
